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Without Rhetoric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell
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Robert Maxwell is Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Princeton University
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When I first went to teach at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Peter Cowan asked me what my research would be. I answered diffidently: ‘meaning in architecture’, and he grinned sceptically, and said: ‘your first job will be to find something to measure’. But I had been seduced by reading Stendhal's De l'amour into believing that measurement wasn't necessary for insight; and persuaded by reading Wellek and Warren on Theory of Literature that theory wasn't to be restricted to physical science. So I was soon giving a course called Meaning in Architecture, without measuring anything, but using lots of comparisons (twin slide projectors had become all the rage).

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1999 , pp. 96 - 98
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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